The upset primary win in New York by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a huge moment for the Democratic Party because it shows the left-wing base is energized heading into the midterms, according to AP National Politics Reporter Steve Peoples. (June 27)
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won against Republican Anthony Pappas in midterm elections to become the youngest woman elected to Congress.(Photo: Rick Loomis, Getty Images)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman elected to Congress in the midterm elections, is struggling to pay rent, according to a recent interview.

Ocasio-Cortez, 29, told The New York Times she's not sure how she will be able to afford an apartment in Washington, D.C., without a salary for three months in an interview published online Wednesday.

She told the Times she has some savings from her job earlier this year as a bartender at a Union Square restaurant, and she's hoping that will hold her over. Living without a paycheck is something she said her and her partner tried to plan for, but it's a hardship that's still "very real."

“We’re kind of just dealing with the logistics of it day by day, but I’ve really been just kind of squirreling away and then hoping that gets me to January,” she told the Times.

Ocasio-Cortez is a New York activist and Democrat who will represent 14th Congressional district, which covers the Bronx and Queens.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a House Oversight Committee hearing on high prescription drugs prices shortly after her private meeting with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 26, 2019. The high-profile freshman and the veteran Pelosi have been critical of one another recently. J. Scott Applewhite, AP

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Congresswomen wear white as they listen as President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address from the House chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington on Feb. 5, 2019. Jasper Colt, USA TODAY

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (C) join their fellow House Democratic women for a portrait in front of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 4, 2019 in Washington, DC. The 116th Congress has the biggest number of female members ever while the number of Democratic women in the House has grown from 16 to 89 since 1989. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the winner of a Democratic Congressional primary in New York, greets a passerby in New York, Wednesday, June 27, 2018, the morning after she upset U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in Tuesday's primary election. Mark Lennihan, AP